The same way a Pentium III made your internet connection faster
The Intel ads were saying your Internet browsing would be faster (eg., at shopping websites)
because their new processor ID feature would more quickly authenticate your buying spree.
The Core Duo uses slightly more power than the Pentium-M to deliver a lot more performance.
The T2500 benches 1:1 with a SemprOn 3100+ running Prime95 versions 24.1x
Given the absolutely enormous advantage Pentiums have had in the last six years
over Athlons with this test, I am underwhelmed. 1024K cache vs 128K I believe.
don't let the squatters make you believe there is NO good domain left free on the web, because they neither have the resource or money to keep up with the imagination of the entire world.
And you can always just register the names that AOL uses for passwords on the outside of their free CDs at retail stores... they parse a couple of nice six-letter words together for their unique combinations.
Worth paying extra so you never watch another commercial advertisement -- just like movies on Sony Betamax in the '80s, Time Warner cable in the '90s, and Disney DVDs from ABC in the new decade.
Commercial-free and uninterupted: Time to dust off the rabbit ears, and check out Public Television (available over the airwaves in every populated US region)
more likely that Apple will start selling hardware to run Windows. It will be marketed as a "high-end" Windows platform that is certified
Exactly! Be forward-looking and you also won't have the backward compatibility headaches.
Quick rule of hardware/software sales is that someone with an old machine worth $175 or less
won't spend two hundred dollars for hardware or software during the remaining machine life.
Bite the bullet for six months and require an arbitrary "multiple CPUs" or "1GB RAM". And
new motherboards will be forced into compatibility rather than the other way around. OS X
will always be seen as flying... instead of limping on some 66MHz bus Celeron 700
aggregates headlines form news sources near your zip code. Not exactly rocket science.
Yet another way to get people to give up a bit more privacy and "log in" just to read web content.
The rocket science part comes when they use reverse DNS for the majority of broadband users:
eg., locally targeting Dynamic-129.DALLAS.rr.com and PPPoE-254.DALLAS.swbell.net users
Yeah, this has worked real well for Mac OS X. Seriously, what is...
The main objective for Mac OS was to be a DRM-delivery system. That succeeded.
From the moment you open the box it's about content.. not about an OS or apps.
Their primary goal was in controlling the delivery of paid software and paid content.
It's what the tobacco industry figured out early: People will smoke 100% pure cigars,
pipes, or roll their own. But by manipulating a basic commodity with unessentials,
you get a highly effective nicotine-delivery system (properly regulated as a drug now)
--
Computer is a bad word:
You won't hear computer
in a Dell advertisement.
The userbase always acts like they are dragged kicking and screaming even with simple desktop look and feel.
It happened with WIN98 to 2000 and I've seen it with "interface issues" upgrading desktops from NT4 to XP.
Putting aside the REAL issues of a major migration, the answer to successful change is to not fight human nature.
Forget about pre-changeover sessions for enduser input and all that. Upgrades succeed in environments where
management doesn't let after-the-fact moaning and groaning be effective tools.
Everywhere else you selectively put shiny new computers (and OSes) on certain peoples desks and just wait.
One hour later when the inevitable jealousy and pettiness reach full force, the users are ready to realize they
can keep their old/slow/loud/ugly computers or be upgraded on schedule. Unfortunately, human nature rules.
my problems with the MPAA and the other groups that make these up
Not enough effort is spent identifying these "other groups" even though you just have to follow the money trail.
Traditional AM and FM radio is all about advertising dollars, and Clear-Channel-types have lots of money to
be thrown at stemming the ratings drops of 50 year old formats that are no longer reaching the publics' ears.
Nice to know that corporations will buy and profit from the code that we have produced in an open source environment.
Who builds the first roads in the early days of the wild, wild west? There are trails created by the early ranchers,
routes traveled and protected by those with deep pockets, and government-made paths for public access by all.
It benefited those already working out there, those already profiting out there, and those going to move out there.
how many people are really likely to get the lightweight version
It's the other way around for me. I'm not going to get a higher version, or higher-end version that doesn't at least semi-render under Office 2K or at least the distributable Office 2003 viewers.
All the upcoming flavors of Office 2007 are purely marketing-driven; beyond just simple economics of wanting to sell the most copies at the highest prices possible.
Marketing-driven as in somebody probably tried making the case for calling it "Office 2006" and it got beaten out by "Office 2008" before they compromised in calling it "Office 2007"... and having nothing to do with producing a more efficient, powerful tool for workers who have reached the productivity limits of Office '97
I recall when I got my first cellphone capable of receiving text messages 10 years ago
that those messages would be queued up on the carrier's servers until...in signal range
To me, the non-legal issue is whether the Blackberry would have even come to market had
it always used the workaround (ie. unworkable, too expensive, infrastructure not scalable)
Maybe someone can otherwise point out a history lesson here, but the Blackberry success
always seemed to be simplicity, well-executed... not some technological feat of integration.
Gmail now also logs your IMs, whether they originate in Gmail or Google Talk
Lately, Google wants you signed-in every bit as bad as Microsoft does with PASSPORT.
Otherwise a GMAIL website doesn't even exist -- any more than a HOTMAIL portal does.
Earlier this year it was still a valid question why you can't block GOOGLE's cookies
for some semblance of search privacy, but allow GMAIL cookie to at least use webmail
PlayChess.com has a beginner and children's section. 50 Euros or so after the first month
(remains free if your IP is in a third-world country or some former Soviet-bloc countries)
Maybe NASA will exceed the previous 1800 recorded instances of Stardust"
--
"Hoagy Carmichael (November 22, 1899 - December 27, 1981)
He is best known for writing "Stardust" (1927), which has
been called the most-recorded American song ever written" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(song)
Slashdot Mirror
That site is already down but it is cached here and here[192.168.1.1]
--
Posted as A.C. for pretty obvious reasons.
Because Slashdot respects confidentiality.
The Intel ads were saying your Internet browsing would be faster (eg., at shopping websites)
because their new processor ID feature would more quickly authenticate your buying spree.
The T2500 benches 1:1 with a SemprOn 3100+ running Prime95 versions 24.1x
Given the absolutely enormous advantage Pentiums have had in the last six years
over Athlons with this test, I am underwhelmed. 1024K cache vs 128K I believe.
And you can always just register the names that AOL uses for passwords on the outside of their free CDs at retail stores ... they parse a couple of nice six-letter words together for their unique combinations.
--
8 out of 10 Windows admins
smell far nicer than their
Linux or Mac counterparts.
Commercial-free and uninterupted: Time to dust off the rabbit ears, and check out Public Television (available over the airwaves in every populated US region)
Exactly! Be forward-looking and you also won't have the backward compatibility headaches.
Quick rule of hardware/software sales is that someone with an old machine worth $175 or less
won't spend two hundred dollars for hardware or software during the remaining machine life.
Bite the bullet for six months and require an arbitrary "multiple CPUs" or "1GB RAM". And ... instead of limping on some 66MHz bus Celeron 700
new motherboards will be forced into compatibility rather than the other way around. OS X
will always be seen as flying
Or why so many mathematicians are struck down before they reach their prime (40, not 42)
Yet another way to get people to give up a bit more privacy and "log in" just to read web content.
The rocket science part comes when they use reverse DNS for the majority of broadband users:
eg., locally targeting Dynamic-129.DALLAS.rr.com and PPPoE-254.DALLAS.swbell.net users
The main objective for Mac OS was to be a DRM-delivery system. That succeeded.
From the moment you open the box it's about content .. not about an OS or apps.
Their primary goal was in controlling the delivery of paid software and paid content.
It's what the tobacco industry figured out early: People will smoke 100% pure cigars,
pipes, or roll their own. But by manipulating a basic commodity with unessentials,
you get a highly effective nicotine-delivery system (properly regulated as a drug now)
--
Computer is a bad word:
You won't hear computer
in a Dell advertisement.
It happened with WIN98 to 2000 and I've seen it with "interface issues" upgrading desktops from NT4 to XP.
Putting aside the REAL issues of a major migration, the answer to successful change is to not fight human nature.
Forget about pre-changeover sessions for enduser input and all that. Upgrades succeed in environments where
management doesn't let after-the-fact moaning and groaning be effective tools.
Everywhere else you selectively put shiny new computers (and OSes) on certain peoples desks and just wait.
One hour later when the inevitable jealousy and pettiness reach full force, the users are ready to realize they
can keep their old/slow/loud/ugly computers or be upgraded on schedule. Unfortunately, human nature rules.
Not enough effort is spent identifying these "other groups" even though you just have to follow the money trail.
Traditional AM and FM radio is all about advertising dollars, and Clear-Channel-types have lots of money to
be thrown at stemming the ratings drops of 50 year old formats that are no longer reaching the publics' ears.
Who builds the first roads in the early days of the wild, wild west? There are trails created by the early ranchers,
routes traveled and protected by those with deep pockets, and government-made paths for public access by all.
It benefited those already working out there, those already profiting out there, and those going to move out there.
It's the other way around for me. I'm not going to get a higher version, or higher-end version that doesn't at least semi-render under Office 2K or at least the distributable Office 2003 viewers.
All the upcoming flavors of Office 2007 are purely marketing-driven; beyond just simple economics of wanting to sell the most copies at the highest prices possible.
Marketing-driven as in somebody probably tried making the case for calling it "Office 2006" and it got beaten out by "Office 2008" before they compromised in calling it "Office 2007" ... and having nothing to do with producing a more efficient, powerful tool for workers who have reached the productivity limits of Office '97
It provides useful service for legitimate mail (first contact) while making spam stand out even more than already.
The smartest thing a spammer could do is send out a fake first mail, but then the user can already blacklist them.
GMAIL certainly could implement it, while Yahoo and Hotmail probably have the capabilities if they'll admit to it.
It demands nothing of the enduser other than admitting that you've given up privacy in order to get free webmail.
Good luck with my velocity-insensitive, 6-note polyphonic, state-of-the-art 2001 MIDI ringtones.
--
Change any notes on my Nokia
ringer and you'll have to pry
it from my cold, dead fingers
that those messages would be queued up on the carrier's servers until...in signal range
To me, the non-legal issue is whether the Blackberry would have even come to market had
it always used the workaround (ie. unworkable, too expensive, infrastructure not scalable)
Maybe someone can otherwise point out a history lesson here, but the Blackberry success ... not some technological feat of integration.
always seemed to be simplicity, well-executed
Lately, Google wants you signed-in every bit as bad as Microsoft does with PASSPORT.
Otherwise a GMAIL website doesn't even exist -- any more than a HOTMAIL portal does.
Earlier this year it was still a valid question why you can't block GOOGLE's cookies
for some semblance of search privacy, but allow GMAIL cookie to at least use webmail
--
Scratches chin
Scratches head
Scratches ass.
So will Yahoo and AOL accept Google micropayments, when people sending 100+ emails have to pay to ensure proper delivery?
Big_Foot_Prints.
(remains free if your IP is in a third-world country or some former Soviet-bloc countries)
They also push the sale of Fritz quite heavily!
--
"Hoagy Carmichael (November 22, 1899 - December 27, 1981)
He is best known for writing "Stardust" (1927), which has
been called the most-recorded American song ever written"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(song)